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Subject:	Re: SL41 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp kernel (fwd)
From:	Dr Ronnie Wallace <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	[log in to unmask]
Date:	Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:04:13 +0000
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Just reporting back that updating to the 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp kernel
seems to resolve the issue discussed below.

cheers,
Ronnie
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         Name: Ronnie Wallace
         Institution: University of Strathclyde
         Department: Mathematics
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: [log in to unmask]
To: Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:19:13 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: SL41 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp kernel

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Well, I'm not finding anything.
> The next step would be to try and see if acpi and/or apic are causing
> problems.
>
> on your grub line can you add
>    noapic acpi=off
> to the bad kernel.
> Try different combination of those.  Just one, just the other, both.
>
> If it still isn't working, please send this back to the mailling list,
> hopefully someone else has an idea.

I've tried all three combinations of noapic and acpi=off but not had any joy.

cheers,
Ronnie
>
> Troy
>
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>
>>> Wow ... I've never seen that before.  It like completely looses track
>>> of the usb devices, like they arn't even there.
>>>
>>> Can you send the full
>>>  lspci
>>> when it's running the bad kernel.
>>
>>
>> 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07)
>> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05)
>> 00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev 03)
>> 00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02)
>> 00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)
>> 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
>> AMD-8111 AC97 Audio (rev 03)
>> 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
>> (rev 12)
>> 00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
>> 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
>> (rev 12)
>> 00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
>> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>> HyperTransport Technology Configuration
>> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>> Address Map
>> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>> DRAM Controller
>> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>> Miscellaneous Control
>> 00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>> HyperTransport Technology Configuration
>> 00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>> Address Map
>> 00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>> DRAM Controller
>> 00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>> Miscellaneous Control
>> 01:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b)
>> 01:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b)
>> 01:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A
>> IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
>> 03:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703X
>> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
>> 08:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8151 System
>> Controller (rev 14)
>> 08:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8151 AGP Bridge
>> (rev 14)
>> 08:03.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
>> (rev 12)
>> 08:03.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
>> 08:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge
>> (rev 12)
>> 08:04.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
>> 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18GL [Quadro4
>> NVS AGP 8x] (rev c1)
>> 13:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902B U320 (rev 10)
>> 13:04.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902B U320 (rev 10)
>>
>>> I'm currently doing searches and stuff, but I'd like to see what it's
>>> thinking the usb stuff turned into.  If I don't find anything soon, we
>>> should push this back up to the list.
>>>
>>> Troy
>>>
>>> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> The kernel it was specifically was kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.EL.x86_64.rpm
>>>>>>
>>>>> So, it did actually work with the kernel-smp-2.6.9-22 in both smp
>>>>> and single processor mode?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> yes.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you give me the output of
>>>>>  lspci | grep -i usb
>>>>>  lsusb
>>>>>
>>>>> If you can send the output from both when it's on a kernel it likes,
>>>>> and when you ssh in on a kernel that isn't working, that would be
>>>>> good.  And then the following
>>>>>  cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> #uname -a
>>>> Linux localhost 2.6.9-22.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Oct 6
>>>> 10:29:17 CDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> #lspci | grep -i usb
>>>> 01:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB
>>>> (rev 0b)
>>>> 01:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB
>>>> (rev 0b)
>>>> 01:03.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
>>>> 01:03.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
>>>> 01:03.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
>>>>
>>>> #lsusb
>>>> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0430:0100 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 3-button Mouse
>>>> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0430:0005 Sun
>>>> Microsystems, Inc. Type 6 Keyboard
>>>> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus
>>>> 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>>>>
>>>> #cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>>>> alias eth0 tg3
>>>> alias scsi_hostadapter aic79xx
>>>> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
>>>> options snd-card-0 index=0
>>>> install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
>>>> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>>>> remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
>>>> }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
>>>> alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
>>>> alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
>>>>
>>>> #uname -a
>>>> Linux localhost 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Oct 27
>>>> 11:42:46 CDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> #lspci | grep -i usb
>>>> 01:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB
>>>> (rev 0b)
>>>> 01:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB
>>>> (rev 0b)
>>>>
>>>> #lsusb
>>>> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>>>>
>>>> #cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>>>> alias eth0 tg3
>>>> alias scsi_hostadapter aic79xx
>>>> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
>>>> options snd-card-0 index=0
>>>> install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
>>>> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>>>> remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
>>>> }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
>>>> alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
>>>> alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
>>>>
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